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The attack has had sweeping political implications, including changes to federal asylum and immigration reviews for thousands of Afghan evacuees who arrived under Operation Allies Welcome.
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Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the evacuees were never allowed to return, and the dogs left at the exclusion zone were abandoned and considered strays.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
However, the evacuees were never allowed to return, and the dogs left at the exclusion zone were abandoned and considered strays.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 7 Dec. 2025
World Relief is one of the refugee resettlement agencies that assisted in the relocation of Afghan evacuees.
—Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2025
The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.
—Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for evacuee
refugee
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Lots of small, family-owned and run Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Chinese refugee businesses there, alongside a long-standing Greek restaurant and a German restaurant with an urban legend about being haunted, and now, some Latinx businesses, a Jamaican restaurant, a Somali restaurant.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Turkish officials have expressed concern that intervention in Iran could spark instability or trigger a refugee influx.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Evacuee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evacuee. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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